when uncommon zeal is displayed, and unusual means are employed, to sap the foundations of the faith once delivered to the saints, and to rob the Son of God of his glory; we deem it incumbent on those, who stand for the defence of the gospel, as effectually as possible to counteract that zeal, and expose and frustrate those means.

As from this part of our duty, though certainly the most painful, we hope never to shrink; so our devout prayer is, that we may ever perform it with such a spirit and in such a manner, as shall entitle us to the continued liberal countenance and support of the christian public. Fully aware, however, that this department of our work, highly important as we deem it, cannot be equally interesting to all our readers; our care will be that it shall not engross too large a share of our attention. The edification, entertainment, and profit of many is the desire of our hearts; and to render the Panoplist and Missionary Magazine as extensively agreeable and useful as we can, shall be our unceasing study.

To our numerous Patrons we tender our grateful acknowledgments; together with our fervent wishes for their best improvement and happiness.

Our obliging Correspondents, who have contributed to enrich our pages, are entitled to our particular thanks. Still in this way to do good and to communicate, we trust they will not forget.

To the Public at large we pledge our most sacred assurances, that pains on our part shall not be wanting to deserve a continued and even increased patronage. We have no private or party interests to subserve; unless the

great

interests of the Redeemer's kingdom come under this

denomination : but a leading and principal object with us is to promote union among christians, under the influence of that wisdom, which is first pure, and then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. If successful in our de. signs, our reward will be abundant, and our everlasting gratitude will be due to Him, whose divine honors we would vindicate, and to whose glory our labors are most devoutly consecrated.

The reader is requested to correct the following errors in the Review of Rees' Cyclopædia, viz. P. 132, and 133, for succession read succussion. P. 216, for ingenuous read ingenious. P. 370, for Dr. Boyle read Dr. Boyce. P. 371, for Sarbourne read Sorbonne. For Cyclopædia read Cyclopædia passim.

ERRATA.

TO THE ESSAYS, INTELLIGENCE, OCCURRENCES, &c.

.

Page.

Page.
Address of the general associa- Boston, new church in

428
tion of Connecticut

153 Brattle Street Church, Hymns
Affliction, the rod of
528 for, reviewed

170
Ames, death of Hon. Fisher 47

Committee's commu-
.... character of ..

92
nication

275
Anecdote of Alp Arslan 169

Editors' Remarks on 276
. £schines and De. Bavian's Kloof, account of . - 320
mosthenes 531 Berlin, account of

322
Gregory, Bishop - 32 Belknap, Dr.

321
Capt. Stocker ib. Benezet, Anthony

ib.
Swartz, Rev. Mr. 80 Berkly Bishop

322
a Hottentot ib. Beveridge Bishop

ib.
Diderot

- 213 Bible, history of copies and edi.
- St. John
362 tions of

ib.
- Sir Richard Steele 456 Biddle, John, account of 323
Angel, meaning of the word - 180 Blasphemy, against the Holy
Antichrist, account of .. 318 Ghost, what

324
Apocalypse, account of
36 Bradford, William Esq.

370
Apocrypha, observations on the 112 Buffon, Count de, account of ib.
Archetype of the Bible Society 405 Brown, Mrs. Mary, tribute to
Ark, Noah's, its dimensions, &c. 214 the memory of

525
Articles of religion, subscrip- Burke, extracts from

272
tion to

163 Burr, Rev. Jonathan, memoirs of 145
Asceties, account of .. 215

с
Association, General, of congre- Calvin, John, account of 408
gational ministers Massachu. Carolinas, account of the

515
setts, proceedings of

83 Countess of Westmoreland, ac-
report of the com-
count of

550
mittee of .

84 Cambridge Platform, hints res.
B
pecting

78
Bacon, Lord, prayer of 489 Cary, Rev. Thomas, obituary of 334
Badger, Rev. Joseph, letter from 427 Catbolic College, Maynoth 558
Bailey, Mr. Algernon Sidney,obit- Cent Society 138, 183, 235

382 Cerinthus, treatment of by St.
Banks, account of
274 John

492
Baptist Missionaries, letter from 236 Christ, see Divinity of Christ.
Barton, Dr.
143 Christian, on the name

11
Berea

545
s an address to

402
• Bible Society, Philadelphia 377, 552 Christianity, its beneficent spirit 24 ·
Connecticut 553

uary of

Page.

report of

on

Hume, David, Esq.

-

Page.
Creeds, on

130, 298, 413 Guyse, Rev. Dr. brief account of 289
subscription to
163

H
D

Hampshire Missionary Society,
Daille, John, account of
202

233
his opinion of the Hart, Rev. Levi, obituary of 287
writings of S:. Paul

ib. Hebrews, Epistle to the, its author 63
Demosthenes, anecdote of 513 Hendrick, Capt.

426
Departure from God, reflections Highwassee School, account of 520

310 Henry, Mr. Philip, memoirs
Discipline, questions upon 268

of

386, 433
Divinity of Christ 209, 295, 343, 391, Heroes, illustrious inscription on 144
[442, 500, 535 Hint, a seasonable

124
Doddridge, Dr. Eulogium on 168 Holy Spirit, on the personality of 212

Life of
529 Homerton Academy

550
Diderot, anecdote of

213
Hoxton do.

ib.
E

Hopkinsianism and Calvinism
Eaton, Rev. Johnston, ordination compared

415
of

144
Houses, Penitentiary

79
E. H. reply to, by R. A. 504, 542 Huber, Rev. J. extract of a letter
Education, improvements in 43 from

482
Ellsworth, Hon. Oliver, Esq. Hymn, a

432
193 Hume, David, Esq. his death 241
England, union of congregational

I
ministers in

88 Independents, general union of 188
Excommunicated, how to be India, extracts of letters from 378
treated

16 Indian Schools, account of 520
Extracts

33 Infant 3 weeks old, ode to an 336
from Dr. Cotton Mather 168 Institutions, ancient Theological 34
Burke
272

Theological at An-
Bogue, Dr. 326 dover opened

191
Witherspoon 491 Intelligence, missionary from the
Kempis
533

Sandwich islands 236
F

literary and philo-
Factories, cotton, in R. Island 328

sophical 284, 422
Fossil bones, prodigious account

J
of

331 Jay, Rev. William, discourse on
French Protestant Seminary
424 Winter

355
France, state of religion in ib. Jews, address to christians re-
Founders of Theological insti.

specting the

122
tution, named

373 Jewish nation, state of, at the
Fragment

272, 361 first promulgation of chris-
Finley, Dr. Samuel, his last words 245 tianity

490
Frey, Joseph S. C.

122 Jews, state of in France 571
G
John, St. the apostle

492
Gallicia, University of

330

his treatment of Cerin.
Gannett, Mrs. character of 45 thus

ib.
Geddes, Dr.

514

к
Gellert, Professor, biography of 1 Kendali, Rev. Dr's remarks on
Gellert's mode of spending the

Review

221
Sabbath

2.

Editors' reply 227
eminence in christian

L
virtue, and method of attain- Learned, address to the

457
10 Letter from Mr. Blackburn 325
Germany, extract of a letter from 380

R. J. Meigs, esq.

129
Gibbon's authority quoted 36

Rev. Dr. Bogue

326
estimated 215, 216

Poinare, king of Ota.
Gottingen university

330
heite

185
Grace and Works

272

Dr. Carey and others 236
Griflin's, Dr. letter to Dr. Green 85

Win. Cowper, Esq.

-

.

-

ing it

-

-

-

Page.

Page.
Letter from John Newton 309

John Codman, 331
Joseph Tarn

554 Ordination of David Holman, 531
John Owen

ib. Original Temptation and Fall,
Josiah Roberts 555, 556

on the

258
Rev. Joseph Badger 427 Otaheite, information from 140
Adam Smith, L L. D. 241

P
• David Hume, Esq. 244 Paul, St. on the writings of 201
. To R. Ralston, Esq.

283

Description of the
· From R. Morrison 284

person of

456
Library of Tippoo Sultan 329 Pennsylvania, Evangelical Soci.
Lines written in the prospect of

ety in

375
great and public calamities
485 Poetry

48
Lists of those gentlemen in Can. Phenomenon

572
ada, &c. who have contributed Prayer of Lord Bacon

489
to the publication of religious Prayer under abuses and pro-
tracts
325, 485, 557 vocations,

359
Living, rules of

360 Publications, new list of 44, 95, 189,
Lock Hospital Collection, recom- [238, 285,327,381,429,486,523, 572
mended

436 Providence, singular and kind 33
Looking unto Christ 348, 395

R
M

Reflections on a departure from
Manufactories, General 329 God,

310
Iron, at Vergennes 328

On the close of a
Manuscripts and books, in Italy,

year,

317
how disposed of

329

of a minister on
Marianne, the dying

192

the death of one
Marvell, Andrew, Esq. of his

of his people,

335
works
311 Refuge, Jewish cities of

21
Medical Department in Univer. Religion, on the prevalence of
sity of Pennsylvania

484

loose and indistinct ideas in 59
Meditations, pious

29, 78

State of in the middle
Meigs, R. J. letters from 139

and southern states, 282
Miller, Rev. Dr. his remarks on

In the bounds of Alba.
novel reading

204

ny presbytery 424
Ministers, encouragement to

In the New York pres-
faithful

-

ety in

Page.

Page.
Its officers

42 Sullivan, James, his excellency,
Naval and Military Bible 90 obituary of

332
Cent

183 Sweden, Religious Tract Soci.
Donations to '183, 235

521
For promoting a knowl. Synod of New York and New
edge of the Holy Jersey, account of

232
Scriptures

184

Albany, report of 424
. London Missionary, ac-

T
count of its fourteenth Tartary, botanizing excursionin 330
general meeting 185 Tippoo Sultan's library

329
Evangelical in Pennsyl- Theological Institution, Ando-
vania

375 ver, remarks on 371, 413, 471
Philadelphia Bible con-

U
stitution of

377 Union, general of independents
Hampshire Missionary,

in England

89, 188
their report
233

V
For missions to Africa Vaccination in China

330
and the east

238 Vennor, Mr. circumstances re-
Vermont Religious
lating to

97
Tract

324 Vice, Society for the suppres-
Religious
361 sion of

89
For propagating the

W
gospel, &c. 374, 426 Watts, Rev. Isaac, D.D. sketch
Congregational Mis-

of

337
sionary, its report and Winter

355
statement of its funds 483 Witherspoon's ecclesiastical
. British and Foreign re-

Characteristics, extracts from 362

186 Wood, colonel David obituary of 431
Smith, Adam

245 Worship, the duty

of public

80
Soldier, religious, account of a 414
Sower, parable of the

446 Year, close of, reflection on 317
Steele, Sir Richard, anecdote of 456 Youth thoughtless

124
Stephen, life of St.

496

z
Swedish Churches, prayer to be Zeal, ministerial, extract from
used in
569 Massillon's sermon on

452

port of

81

INDEX TO THE REVIEWS.
Brattle Street church hymns, 170 Holmes' Sermon before the
Chaplin's Convention Sermon,

Society for propagating the
Constitution, &c. of Theological

Gospel,

558
Institution,

371 Kendall's Ordination Sermon, 125
Christian Monitor, No. ix.

461 Rees'Cyclopædia, 131, 177, 214, 273,
Dwight's Sermon

457

[218, 368, 407, 514
Emerson's Selection of Psalms Religious Conference,

217
and Hymns,
363 Review of Reviews,

413, 471
Faber on the Prophecies, 35 Romeyn's Fast Sermon, 551

INDEX TO THE POETRY.
Female Pilgrim,
48 tions,

432
An Elegiac Tribute to Rev. Lines written in the prospect
John Newton,

95 of great and public calamities, 485
Inscription in a Grotto,
144 The Rod of AMiction,

528
The dying Marianne,
192 On Spring,

ibid.
A Minister's Reflections on the Reflections on the close of a
Death of one of his people, 335 year,

317
To an infant three weeks old, 363 Shortness of life, lines on 575
Hymn, on the Divine Perfec. Spring and Autumn

576